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Dr. John T. Stevenson • Family Life • Academic Life

Dr. John T. Stevenson • Family Life • Academic Life • Professional Life

Dr. John T. Stevenson • • • Family Life Academic Life Professional Life Ministry Life Spiritual Life

Dr. John T. Stevenson • • • Family Life Academic Life Professional Life Spiritual Life Ministry Life Archaeology and Ancient History

Group Introductions • Your name • Your spiritual gift and/or area of ministry • Is there an era of history that captures your interest?

Dr. John T. Stevenson http: //John. Stevenson. net John. Stevenson@Bellsouth. net

Course Objectives • Recall the historical narratives surrounding the rise and fall of the major world civilizations. • Memorize key facts about the civilizations covered. • Explain how the rise and fall of the civilizations covered ties into Biblical History. • Learn the lessons of history that can be applied for today.

Course Requirements • • • Reading: Due each week Quizzes: Available on Populi (open book). Class Paper: Choose a specific time period, empire, country, or region from 2200 B. C. to 1450 A. D. (not Israel). – Origins – Culture, religion, technology – Socio-economic structures – How did this affect the course of the world?

Course Requirements • • • Reading: Due each week Quizzes: Available on Populi (open book). Class Paper: Choose a specific time period, empire, country, or region from 2200 B. C. to 1450 A. D. (not Israel). • Final Exam.

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Plagiarism is the taking of someone else’s writing, presentation, or even ideas, and passing them off as though they were your own.

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Plagiarism can be… • Intentional: You take from a source and give no credit to that source • Unintentional: You mention the source, but… – No quotation marks – Limited quotation marks – Sources merely strung together

“The word plagiarism is derived from the Latin word plagiarius, meaning someone who kidnaps the child or slave of another. ” (2014: 3). Debora Weber-Wulff False Feathers: A Perspective on Academic Plagiarism, New York, NY: Springer, 2014

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The proper way to avoid plagiarism is by correctly citing your sources. Such citation is the difference between research versus plagiarism.

Even if a paper has correct citations, it is unacceptable to compose a paper that consists solely or even primarily of other people’s work. Your research and independent thinking should result in an original composition.

Grading Summary Quizzes Paper Final Exam - 50% - 20% - 30%

• Predictable • Repeatable • Alterable • Reversible

• Everything happens by chance • Everything is becoming more complex (better) • What happened in the past doesn’t have any real meaning for us today

• God rules history • God orchestrates history according to how He wants it to end • History is an island in the sea of eternity • History is a battleground between two spiritual kingdoms

• Hunter-gatherer Groups • Pastoral Societies – Chief & commoner

• Hunter-gatherer Groups • Pastoral Societies – Chief & commoner • Kingdoms – King, noble, freeman, serf, slave

• Hunter-gatherer Groups • Pastoral Societies – Chief & commoner • Kingdoms – King, noble, freeman, serf, slave • Civilizations – Complex social hierarchy

• Hunter-gatherer Groups • Pastoral Societies – Chief & commoner • Kingdoms – King, noble, freeman, serf, slave • Civilizations – Complex social hierarchy – Economy

• Record Keeping – Laws – Debts and Payments

• Record Keeping – Laws – Debts and Payments • Advanced Technology

Egypt 1798

Rosetta

Three types of Writing • • • Hieroglyphs Demotic Greek

Jean Francois Champollion

Persia 1842

Behistun Inscription • Old Persian • Elamite • Akkadian Sir Henry Rawlinson

Israel 1908 Gezer

Egypt 1887

Giza Amarna

Palestine 1947

Qumran

ISAIAH SCROLL

Jerusalem Bethlehem Qumran

Hebrew University of Jerusalem • Incomplete manuscript of Isaiah reflecting old Hebrew • Thanksgiving Hymns • War Scroll

Metropolitan of the Syrian Orthodox Church in Jerusalem • Isaiah Scroll reflecting editorial changes • Community Rule • Pesher Habakkuk • Genesis Apocryphon

• Moved to the United States • Put the scrolls up for sale in a newspaper advertisement

• Son of Eleazar Sukenik • General in Israeli army • Purchased through an intermediary the four scrolls for the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Does the Bible tell us when Creation took place?

• All living organisms take in Carbon 14 • When death occurs, amount of Carbon 14 begins to decay • Rate of decay is constant and measurable

• Half-life of Carbon 14 is 5, 730 years • Scientists measure the ration of Carbon 12 to Carbon 14 to determine age • Reliability decreases with age

• Studies chemical composition of minerals • Useful to determine sources of clay for pottery

Unexcavated Tel at Colossae

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